Chapter 2829 — An Even Stranger Technique
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"Oh... it's perfectly normal. I'm from the branch descended from Dongfang Bubai's cousin," Dongfang Bushu said, his face reddening as he explained.
In truth, whether their Dongfang clan had any real connection to Dongfang Bubai was something even their current head, Dongfang Chaoqun, could not say for certain. But the ancient Dongfang family had borrowed the identity of Dongfang Bubai's descendants, and the name did carry a certain intimidating weight.
"Oh, I thought you might have some secret for how eunuchs can father children." Zhang Naipao sounded rather deflated at this. "That whatever Qiankun Great Shift you mentioned, I've only ever seen it on TV. Qiankun Great Shift isn't what I cultivate."
"I don't care whether you do or not. Rest assured, I won't attack you first. I'll just finish off these little underlings of yours right now. As long as I don't strike at you first, your Qiankun Great Shift can be as formidable as it likes — it'll be useless against me." Dongfang Bushu had already made up his mind that Zhang Naipao cultivated the Qiankun Great Shift.
"Oh, that works too. Then how about I hit you first?" Zhang Naipao asked, his expression giving nothing away.
"You? Hit me? Go ahead — as long as you can actually do anything to me, hit me however you like!" Dongfang Bushu curled his lip, plainly not regarding Zhang Naipao, an early Heaven-rank expert, as worth his attention.
"You're the one who told me to hit you." Zhang Naipao gave a cold snort. "Don't blame me for not warning you."
"You're nothing but an early Heaven-rank expert. What's the harm in letting you have one free strike?" Dongfang Bushu said carelessly.
"Hell Yin Demon Fist!" Zhang Naipao rapidly circulated the mnemonic of his inner art, forming an exceedingly bizarre hand seal with one hand, then abruptly clenched his fist and swung it out, aiming straight at Dongfang Bushu's head!
Dongfang Bushu had been quietly on guard all along, not only circulating his inner art to shield himself with true qi but also keeping himself ready to dodge at any moment. Seeing Zhang Naipao's fist come sweeping over, he hurriedly retreated two steps to evade — but to his surprise, Zhang Naipao had already halted his steps, and his fist too had stopped in midair!
Yet just as Dongfang Bushu was wondering what on earth Zhang Naipao was doing, the true qi on Zhang Naipao's fist did not halt at all — it shot straight forward and sank into Dongfang Bushu's mind.
"Aah—" Dongfang Bushu let out a sudden roar. His eyes turned crimson, and his hands began flailing wildly without pause, as though he had been subjected to some tremendous shock. He abruptly dropped to his knees on the ground, frantically tearing at his own hair with both hands. Then just as suddenly he leapt up and began spinning about in place...
"Young Master Dongfang, what's wrong with you?" His lackey was stunned by Dongfang Bushu's bizarre behavior and asked in some alarm.
"Aah—" Dongfang Bushu did not answer at all. He flung his lackey aside with one hand, sending the man staggering and very nearly crashing to the ground to his death. His lackey was only a mid Earth-rank expert — how could he withstand such a fling?
But this lackey bore the heavy responsibility of accompanying Dongfang Bushu, and if anything happened to Dongfang Bushu during the trial, he could forget about ever having an easy time of it once he returned to the Dongfang family! He was, after all, nothing but an ordinary disciple of the family.
"Thud!"
Dongfang Bushu actually dropped straight to his knees on the ground and began kowtowing, his forehead striking the earth with a resounding thud, thud, thud, leaving everyone present except Zhang Naipao utterly astonished as to what on earth had come over him.
"Aah, aah, aah—" Dongfang Bushu kowtowed and roared out a string of syllables whose meaning no one could fathom.